Saturday, April 28, 2018

I've been semi-keto for a few months and I just realized I was doing it all wrong.
I used to think keto and carnivore was the same thing. You eat meat and meat by-products and avoid the carbs. Not the same thing at all. Carnivore is an all meat diet. Keto is an all meat lifestyle. Let me explain.

Keto is the state of ketosis you get into when you start burning ketones as a fuel instead of carbohydrates. Burning ketones means you're burning body fat as a fuel. To get there you have to ween your body off of processing carbohydrates as a fuel. That means giving up sugar, grains, and starchy foods like potatoes and corn and utilizing interval fasting to hack your system. (three meals or less a day) It also requires a macro-nutrient distribution of 17% protein, 4% carbohydrates, 79% fat when you decide to re-feed.

Guess what falls exactly into the guidelines of a perfect ketogenic diet.

LIVERWURST. Do you believe this shit? I had to recheck my findings but it seems liverwurst is the ideal health food. Ya can't make this shit up. Liverwurst has the exact macro-nutrient makeup that will put you in ketosis and keep you there. If all you ate was liverwurst, you would lose 2 lbs of ugly fat a day, have way more energy, and cure whatever ailments you have. The only problem is you can't put it in a sandwich.

It's gross enough for some people to eat a liverwurst sandwich with onion and mustard on a hard roll and another to actually eat liverwurst without any bread at all. And here lies the problem.

If you have physical problems like obesity, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, GERD, cellulites, high blood pressure, or any other malady your doctor says you have, and you can't change your diet, then you'll die. Your doctor isn't in the business of curing YOU. He's in the business of maintaining your diseases until your insurance runs out.

You can go the route of big pharma and die a meaningless death or cure yourself.

Given the choice of liverwurst without bread or a long, painful death, which would you choose?

Unfortunately, most people I know would rather die than eat liverwurst. I hate to say it but fuck em. Let em die. If you can't be bothered to even look into your own health concerns, don't expect me to cheerfully pick up the tab when you go terminal.

Just OD on opiates and become a statistic.

Wouldn't it be better to get a lb of liverwurst from your deli and try it with a little dejon mustard before you totally give up?

An absolutely stunning new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report
circulating in the Kremlin today reveals that during the past fortnight,
CIA Director Mike Pompeo was personally dispatched by President Donald
Trump to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal to hold a secret
meeting with the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong-un—but with Pompeo’s duel-mission to this Asian
nation, also, seeing him personally oversee the capture of top United
Nations adviser Peter John Dalglish—who, in desperation just prior to
his being apprehended, released to the “dark web” what is described as a
“snuff film” showing Hillary Clinton and her top aid Huma Abedin
torturing and murdering a child. [Note: Some words and/or phrases
appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations
of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

According to this report, this past Sunday (15 April), the SVR contacted
their CIA counterparts to provide them with satellite tracking and
signals intelligence information showing that both CIA Director Pompeo
and North Korean leader Kim Jung-un had traveled to Nepal during this
past fortnight—to which the Americans responded to by stating that as
Nepal had longstanding good relations with the United States, and,
equally, longstanding good relations with North Korea too, its
international neutrality provided the most obvious choice of meeting
places for the upcoming summit between President Trump and Kim
Jung-un—and that both the US and North Korea were making a “trial run”
in preparation for.

When SVR officials asked their CIA counterparts as to why Director
Pompeo was personally overseeing an operation being conducted by the
Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police (CIB) to capture the
international fugitive Peter John Dalglish, while at the same time he
was meeting with the North Korean leader, however, this report
continues, the Americans abruptly ended their “conversation” with SVR
officials—but, within 3 hours, then saw SVR Director Sergey Naryshkin
receive a personal call from Director Pompeo—and wherein Pompeo told
Naryshkin that President Trump had ordered an immediate halt to any
further sanctions of Russia in exchange for allowing the Americans to
handle this “extremely delicate issue” on their own—that Moscow agreed
to—and was then followed by the US admitting that Pompeo had, indeed,
met with Kim Jung-un—but whose place of meeting was said to be North
Korea, not Nepal where it had actually occurred.

As to the “extreme delicate issue” being dealt with by President Trump
and Director Pompeo, this report details, was the capture of one of the
most secretive wanted fugitives in the world named Peter John
Dalglish—who is described as a Canadian humanitarian, top United Nations
advisor, and founder of the Street Kids International charity
organization—which, within a few weeks of President Trump’s stunning
election victory over Hillary Clinton, suddenly revoked its Canadian
charitable registration on 15 December 2016—with Dalglish then appearing
in Nepal three days later on 18 December 2016.

With SVR intelligence “assets” maintaining continuous “observations” of
Peter John Dalglish since his late December-2016 arrival in Nepal, this
report notes, no actions against him by the Americans had been observed,
other than the CIA constantly monitoring him too—but that changed a few
weeks ago, in late March, when a CIA advance team arrived in Nepal for
purposes, at that time, unknown.

Upon the CIA advance team arriving in Nepal, this report says, SVR
intelligence analysts recorded a “significant increase” in “dark web”
communications emanating from the home of Peter John Dalglish—that
culminated, during the first week of April, when he released to the
“dark web” a video file code named “Frazzledrip”—that contains a scene
of Hillary Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin taking the facial skin
off a young girl child and wearing it over their own faces to terrify
the girl—with Clinton and Abedin then killing the child and drinking her
blood. [WARNING: This link does not contain the actual “Frazzledrip”
video file—but whose instructions to access SHOULD NOT be followed as
it is against US Federal law to do so.]

Shockingly, too, this report continues, another “dark web” video posted
by Peter John Dalglish shows Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin engaging in
sex acts with an underage girl child—with reports coming from the US
saying that this video was so horrifying, it made seasoned New York City
police officers cry—but that these police officials, also, say is the
“Rosetta Stone” of information connecting senior American politicians,
such as Clinton, to an elite global pedophile ring.

To why Peter John Dalglish had posted these inhuman demonic videos of
Hillary Clinton to the “dark web”, this report concludes, was in an
effort to blackmail the “Deep State” in order stop his being captured by
CIA forces loyal to President Trump —but whose efforts did not succeed
as elite Nepal police forces, while being overseen by Director Pompeo,
successfully captured him, while at the same time rescuing the two girl
children he had imprisoned in his home—and with the first “ripple
effect” of this capture being the “Deep State” pawn US Senate Leader
Mitch McConnell stunningly just reversing himself and giving Trump the
“green light” to fire Special Counsel Robert Muller—and that, no doubt,
will soon turn into a “tsunami” engulfing, and ultimately destroying,
the “Deep State” forever—and whose evidence of this being true can be
seen in the rabid and psychotic fear now being displayed on an hourly
basis by the “Deep State” aligned US mainstream propaganda media
establishment whose attacks on Trump have become so unhinged, they now
border on the insane.

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Sunday, April 08, 2018

My neighbor is somewhat heavily involved in his church. He attends every Sunday and gets involved in various merchandising schemes to keep the church lights on. He lets me know when the hoagies (po' boy, subs, grinders) are on sale. Let me tell ya, they make the very best hoagies and I always order at least three at a time. Yeah, they're THAT good.

Members of the congregation get together with local farms and bakeries and secure the raw materials. Other members gather in the church basement and get busy making hoagies or soup or whatever is on the menu. Pick up is in back of the church. Yesterday was turkey dinner day.

This is a big deal for the church. They have a small army of Christian men and women divided into groups in charge of making specific items. You'll have several women who do nothing but roast turkeys. Another group who makes the stuffing. Another who makes the mashed potatoes and so on. On turkey dinner day they all bring their fresh-out-of-the-oven creations to the church basement where it's carved up, dished out, and assembled in portion controlled efficiency and bagged up as one individual dinner.

Pick up was between 3:30 and 6pm and by 3:30 the line went around the church. A half dozen church members were dispensing turkey dinners while others were bringing out more. The temps were in the 40's but this stuff was still hot. It doesn't get any fresher than this.

The bag consisted of several containers filled with apple-cranberry sauce, pickled cabbage, a tub of gravy, a piece of chocolate cake, and a big, partitioned, Styrofoam container filled to the max with mashed potatoes, fresh cut-from-the-cob corn, and a heaping mound of stuffing topped with thick slices of turkey.

I've had this dinner before and all I can say is this stuff you'll never find in a restaurant. The quality and flavor is matched only by it's extreme massiveness.
I ate the whole thing in one sitting.

The next morning, I couldn't help but notice a distinct elevation in body aches and pains. My lower back felt like a train wreck and my shoulders hurt like hell. This is exactly how I felt before I started keto and then vegetarian as a change of pace. It felt like the low level inflammation I've been enduring most of my life while, at the time, I thought I was eating healthy.

Ok, I've been staying away from bread, grains, potatoes, corn, gravy,
sweet stuff, and white food in general for more than a year and I was
curious how this stuff would effect my physiology. Now I know.

I can understand why a meal like this is something that anyone involved in ketogenics, paleo, vegan, Mediterranean, or any other food discipline can agree on. There's something in the American diet for everyone to hate and for good reason. Obesity, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, type 2 diabetes, cancer, gastritis, celiac disease... the list is endless and a major boon to the medical industry and big pharma. A long term diet like this will surely kill you slowly with lots of Rx drugs to help along the way. Hail AMA!

Thursday, April 05, 2018

A few years ago, I had some blood work done and was going over the results with my doctor. I wanted a snapshot of my health profile to see how I'm doing. If my car just hit 500,000 miles I'd do the same thing with the oil. In both cases, analysis of the fluids can tell what's going on with that particular system.

He went down the list.

"Folic acid is fine, D3 is great, testosterone is a-ok, oxygen/co2 transfer is spot on, liver is healthy, but... your blood glucose levels seem a bit high. You need to cut out sugar and grains from your diet and avoid pizza at all costs because the glycemic index of the crust and cheese is a double whammy and will mess you up."

Talk about good news and bad news. He discussed dietary options and told me flat out that if his colleagues knew he let me out of his office without lots of drugs they'd put him through the ringer. He advised me to get one of those meters to test and monitor my b/g. My doctor knows me all too well. He knows how I feel about Big Pharma and if he gave me a prescription it would be a waste of effort. I left in full denial that his instruments must be off. I feel healthy as a horse.

At that time, my fasting blood glucose level was a consistent 187. I figured one of two things. My meter was off or 187 was MY normal b/g. My solution was going keto and that meant supplementing my diet with lots of kippered herring, eggs, bacon, salami, pepperoni, ham, red meat, cheese, and lots of butter. I'd protein load all day and couldn't figure out why my levels didn't go down. I cut the carbs. That should be enough, right? WRONG!

Although my food choices were fairly accurate, my timing was the culprit and THE major factor in developing type 2 diabetes. Endless research, trial and error, and a totally stubborn persistence gave me enough meager gains to celebrate with a large pepperoni pizza. Two hours later I tested my b/g at a staggering 367. Holy fuck! Now, THAT scared the bejesus out of me and forced me to realize pizza, my most beloved food of all time, was now my personal poison. That's when I got serious.

This is the food pyramid the USDA gave us a guideline for perfect health.

To me, this chart says pizza is the perfect food. Bread on the bottom, tomato sauce from veggies in the middle, topped with cheese and pepperoni with a greasy glaze. It's also the standard model McDonalds, Subway, Taco Bell, and every other fast food restaurant chain in the US uses as the foundation of a healthy eating lifestyle.

It's really not. Fast food is tasty, yummy and super delicious and we all know it's nowhere near healthy. But any burger, hotdog, or sub is an accurate representation of this USDA chart for good health. My government has been lying to me my whole life. Why should I believe them when it comes to food?

In my case, I always ate a lively combination of everything in abundance. Six meals a day with pepperoni and celery in between to keep me in the keto lifestyle, fit and healthy. Many times I'd stop at McDonalds and pick up a grocery bag of breakfast sandwiches for me and my workmates, as an early morning snack. We'd order pizza for lunch or maybe get a couple dozen bagels to nibble on throughout the day. Sometimes we'd get Chinese with a half dozen egg rolls to increase our veggie input to keep us on the fast track to vibrant good health. Dinner might consist of pizza or stromboli or leftover lasagna or all of the above. Physically, I was the picture of good health but internally something was amiss.

It wasn't the food choices that did me in. It was the constant state of processing all that crap for decades that made my liver insulin resistant, followed by a rather high blood glucose level that stubbornly refused to drop.

Insulin resistance is caused by a fatty liver. How do you get a fatty liver? How do you make foie gras? It's the same thing.

Keto with intermittent fasting works but I eventually reached a b/g plateau after a month. Fasting glucose levels refused to go lower than 127 no matter how few carbs I consumed.
It was Dr. Jason Fung that said curing type 2 diabetes is easy. Just stop eating. An eighteen hour fast followed by bacon and eggs and a salad for dinner four hours later is nothing more than skipping breakfast and won't let you stay in ketosis long enough to do more than a slow recovery with severe constipation as an added benefit.

In the world of ketosis, intermittent fasting is masturbation.

No more fuckin around. I've been carb free for a month and all I have to show for it is a 60 point drop and faster recovery. Time to get radical on this.

How do you cure a fatty liver? The same way you clear the stress from your life. You go on vacation and don't work for two weeks. I put my liver and pancreas on vacation while I did my first fast.

Cole, on Snake Diet, gave me the formula for his snake juice that is essential for a prolonged fast. It's basically a liter of water and a tablespoon each of Himalayan salt and potassium. This provides the electrolytes necessary to get you through the fast without feeling like crap. Plain water won't cut it. A plain water fast isn't just horrible, it's dangerous. You'll piss your nutrients away and you need potassium to keep your heart pumping. Not only that but the snake juice will make you feel great.

My 24 hour fast turned into a 48 hour fast and that turned into a 72. I went into ketosis within the first 12 hours and stayed there for the duration with more energy than I ever dreamed possible. By day two, I noticed those little aches and pains I learned to live with, weren't there anymore. My head was totally clear and I was physically stronger and multi-tasking was a breeze.

By day three I couldn't stop thinking of a Whopper with cheese. Taking that burger with both hands and tearing into the meat and cheese and lettuce and tomato and secret sauce and that wonderful poppyseed bun was occupying my every thought. I ended up breaking my fast with a King Bacon and fries. Definitely not keto but I needed a reward for my efforts. I washed it down with a cup of bone broth and apple cider vinegar. Disgusting, I know, but it's what my body craved.

Funny but this burger didn't taste like much. It needed salt so I dumped it on the two patties and bacon while Sue watched in total disbelief. A few more bites and a handful of fries and I still couldn't taste it. More salt on the bottom patty and a few more bites and that was it. I lost my appetite. I was full and lethargic. Back to normal. An hour later and I tested my b/g and it elevated to 110. Cool. I think I cracked the code.

It's not starvation. I have enough body fat to feed on for a couple weeks and that's what it's all about. Without the carbs for fuel, my body used the fat stores as a backup and some of that fat came from my over-worked liver and pancreas. The more fat the liver loses, the less insulin resistance, the more efficient your body processes nutrition.
During this time another process was taking effect.

Autophagy ramps up during a fast as a survival mechanism. In simple terms, old, damaged, or imperfect cells are deconstructed and recycled. Unneeded proteins are degraded and the amino acids recycled for the synthesis of proteins that are essential for survival. During this time, viruses and other nasty pathogens are targeted for destruction. In other words, autophagy puts your body in a state of hyper repair mode that goes right to problem cells and terminates them and recycles the bits left over. As a result, fasting can cure tuberculosis, as well as damn near any other disease.

Why don't MDs tell this to their patients? Why does the American Diabetic Association insist that those with type 2 diabetes eat six meals a day with a focus on high carbs and low proteins and fats, knowing full well that carbs are what causes the problem in the first place? Why does the whole allopathic community still focus on grains as a necessary component in a healthy diet with celiac disease and obesity reaching epic proportions?

I know, the idea that denying nutrition is better for us than feeding our food addiction is stretching the bounds of reality just a hair but there's tons of scientific evidence to back all of this up. Most religions include regulated fasts as part of their culture. The oldest human tribes on the planet deemed eating at specific times of the year as taboo. It's not a religious thing but a connection to our hunter-gatherer ancestors who accepted feast and famine as natural.

How does a lion eat? He hunts when he's hungry and in a state of autophagy ketosis from laying around for a week, he runs full tilt boogie after impalas and caribou until he brings one down and gorges on the meat so he can lay around for another week. That's the way with all life on Earth except for the humans with food in the pantry, a supermarket next door and a McDonalds on the way to work.

My conclusion: Veganism is more of a religion than healthy lifestyle, keto works but not well enough, paleo is the best of both worlds, and intermittent fasting is good for maintaining. For me, fasting two or three days a week and pigging out for two days with no restrictions is my idea of a perfect diet.

My reasoning is simple. I love pizza, lasagna, and calzone too much to give it up. Fasting gives me the opportunity to carbo-load every week and get in shape at the same time. The best part, alcohol won't knock you out of ketosis.